This volume is a richly entertaining and exciting collection of mystery and detective stories from the golden age of crime fiction. This was a period when crimes were solved by the wit and ingenuity of the sleuth with only his own intelligence to rely on, rather than a battery of scientific devices and procedures employed by the modern crime solver.

Within these pages you will meet such fascinating sleuths as G.K. Chesterton's Mr Pond; Ernest Bramah's remarkable blind detective, Max Carrados, who can read newspapers by running his sensitive fingers over the print; Craig Kennedy, 'the American Sherlock Holmes' created by Arthur B. Reeve; and Jacques Futrelle's 'Thinking Machine' Professor S.F.X. Van Dusen.

The reader will also find tales by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Arnold Bennett, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle - all created to thrill and intrigue you.

Contents:

Introduction by David Stuart Davies

The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe

Silver Blaze by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Ghost of Fountain Lane by C.L. Pirkis

Who Killed Zebedee? by Wilkie Collins

The Great Ruby Robbery by Grant Allen

The Murder of the Mandarin by Arnold Bennett

The Purple Death by William Le Queux

The White Pillars Murder by G.K. Chesterton

The Sapient Monkey by Headon Hill

Clues by Edgar Wallace

The Curzon Street Conundrum by David Stuart Davies

The Trial for Murder by Charles Dickens

The Black Diamond by Arthur B. Reeve

The Vanished Crown by Ernest Bramah

The Lost Special by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Dollar Chasers by Earl Derr Biggers

The Amber Beads by Fergus Hume

The Affair of the German Dispatch-Box by Victor L. Whitechurch

The Stone of the Edmundsbury Monks by M.P. Shiel

The Manor House Mystery by J.S. Fletcher

Abel Crew by Mrs Henry Wood

The Well by W.W. Jacobs

Cheating the Gallows by Israel Zangwill

The Return of Imray by Rudyard Kipling

The Treasure Hunt by Edgar Wallace

The Problem of Cell 13 by Jacques Futrelle

The Murder at the Duck Club by Hesketh Prichard

Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty by Stacy Aumonier

The Secret of the Fox Hunter by William Le Queux

A Schoolmaster Abroad by E.W. Hornung

The Missing Millionaire by Harry Blyth

The Invisible Man by G.K. Chesterton

The Riddle of the Visiting Angel by David Stuart Davies

In the Grip of the Green Demon by Robert Barr

The Murdered Cousin by J.S. Le Fanu

The Shadow in the Corner by M.E. Braddon

The Problem of Dead Wood Hall by Dick Donovan

The Invisible Ray by Arthur B. Reeve

The Black Cross by Arthur B. Reeve

The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage Ernest Bramah

The Secret of Headlam Height by Ernest Bramah

The Secret Garden by G.K. Chesterton

The Stolen White Elephant by Mark Twain

The Absent-Minded Coterie by Robert Barr

The Mystery at Number Seven by Mrs Henry Wood

The Green Mamba by Edgar Wallace

The Accusing Shadow by Harry Blyth

The Gylston Slander by Herbert Jenkins

The Curse of the Griswold Phantom by David Stuart Davies

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume

Original title: Vintage Mystery and Detective StoriesOriginal languages:
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